Is Fortnite down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Fortnite right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Fortnite continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, can't join a game, lag or disconnects, party / voice chat and store or purchases. Those are the options the report button offers for Fortnite, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Fortnite specifically, the Epic account service, matchmaking, the item shop and the game servers are separate, and Epic disables matchmaking deliberately during updates and live events. Your region can be queued while another plays, and one platform can be blocked while the rest are fine. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Fortnite, check how far you get. Reaching the lobby but not a match is matchmaking; stuck at the login queue is the account service. The Epic Games launcher also failing to sign in on another network confirms it is them. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Fortnite's side. Specifically: wait in the login queue instead of restarting. Restarting drops your place and sends you to the back, and the queue is designed to hold you rather than fail. Purchases that appear to fail often complete later, so do not buy twice. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Fortnite publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Fortnite itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.epicgames.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is Fortnite's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Fortnite or fortnite.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Fortnite's own support, not us.